ACK: [PATCH][SRU][X] scsi_dh_alua: uninitialized variable in alua_rtpg()

Dragan Stancevic dragan.stancevic at canonical.com
Tue Dec 12 15:39:17 UTC 2017


Got it, thanks

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Kleber Souza
<kleber.souza at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 12/11/17 16:11, Dragan Stancevic wrote:
>> Has this gone in? I just did a git pull but don't see it in the tree.
>>
>> I'm asking because I have a user that has been waiting on this for a
>> few months. If it hasn't can someone else also take a look at it so it
>> can move forward?
>>
>
> Hi Dragan,
>
> The patch has got only one ACK on the mailing-list, it needs two ACKs
> before we apply it to the master-next branch of the corresponding
> series. When that's done, it will be picked up for the next SRU cycle.
>
> However, the Stable Team has decided that the last SRU cycle of the
> year, which is starting this week, will be focused on security (CVE)
> fixes only. So your patch will be applied only for the first SRU cycle
> of next year.
>
>
> Regards,
> Kleber
>
>> Thank you in advance
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Colin Ian King
>> <colin.king at canonical.com> wrote:
>>> On 29/11/17 23:19, Dragan Stancevic wrote:
>>>> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
>>>>
>>>> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1720228
>>>>
>>>> It's possible to use "err" without initializing it.  If it happens to be
>>>> a 2 which is SCSI_DH_RETRY then that could cause a bug.  Bart Van Assche
>>>> pointed out that we should probably re-initialize it for every iteration
>>>> through the retry loop.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinicke <hare at suse.de>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jejb at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>>> (cherry picked from commit a4bd85203190990ad808abbd4a5dc848a950002c)
>>>> Signed-off-by: Dragan Stancevic <dragan.stancevic at canonical.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c | 1 +
>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
>>>> b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
>>>> index 8eaed05..a655cf2 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c
>>>> @@ -532,6 +532,7 @@ static int alua_rtpg(struct scsi_device *sdev,
>>>> struct alua_port_group *pg)
>>>>                 return SCSI_DH_DEV_TEMP_BUSY;
>>>>
>>>>   retry:
>>>> +       err = 0;
>>>>         retval = submit_rtpg(sdev, buff, bufflen, &sense_hdr, pg->flags);
>>>>
>>>>         if (retval) {
>>>>
>>> Clean upstream cherry pick, looks good.
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
>>




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